Improvement in tatting



t sa @abated 55 il e C. O. CROSBY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Lette'rcPatent No. 83,765, dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TATTING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, C. O. CROSBY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and' State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Tatting; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying th'awings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l, a diagram, illustrating the process of manufacture;

Figure 2, the article complete; and, in

Figure 3, a modification of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture ofthe looped fabric commonly called tatting, such as is commonly made by hand, and from a single thread, the object being to produce the article at less oost, by increasing the rapidity with which the article may be produced; and the invention consists in interlacing, looping, or kuotting a filling-thread around one or more of several warps, a different number of loops or knots upon dierent warps, and, when the requisite number of knots has been made upon* the required thread, the .number of knots or loops is beaten up, sliding upon one or more of the wai-ps, so as to bring the work into a regular figure, from which figure other combinations may be produced, by adding other warps.

In order to the clear understanding of my invention, I will fully describe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. i

I will first describe my invention as for making common siiigle-scallop tatting.

To do this, I employ three warps, represented by three threads, a b c, respectively blue, black, and red. d is the llin g or looping-thread.

First, then, employing the two warps a and b, I interlace the filling-thread d, preferring what is known as the chain-stitch, knotting alternately under the one, and over the other, until the requisite number, say three stitches or knots, is formed, as marked 3. Then, throwing out the warp or thread a, as denoted by the broken lines, iig. l, I loop or knot 'the filling-thread around the thread l), say four knots,-as marked 4 in fig. l. Then bring in the other thread, c, as also denoted in broken lines, and knot together, in the 'manner before described, the two threads b and c, for, say, eight knots, as denoted at 8, lig. 1. Then take out the thread c, and again knot or loop upon the middle thread, l), four knots, as above. Then bring in the other thread, a, and knot together the two threads a kand b, say three knots, as first described. Now, the

two ,threads a and c are held taut, while the iillingthread and thread Zi are slackened. Then the stitches thus formed are beaten o1' moved up upon the thread ay and c, to form the rst scallop, as seen in tig. 2. Then the operation is again repeated, and, in like ina-nner, the second scallop formed .and beaten up, and so on, continuing to form scallop after scallop, the warp c serving to sustain the scallop at the outer edge, and the. warp a at the other edge.

This forms an article identical in appearance with the common tatting, although of different fabrication.

By the addition of additional warps or threads, the figure may be changed indefinitely; as, for instance, in fig. 3, a fourth warp, c, is introduced, the iirst scallop formed attached thereto, then several scallops formed, as before described, independent of the fourth thread, and, when the requisite number of scallops (represented as five in fig. 3) have been formed, then the next scallop is attached to the fourth warp-thread, e,

and the said fourth warp-thread held taut, and thewarp-threzul a allowed to slack but very little, while the other two warp-threads are left free. The several scallops are then beaten up, sliding on the warp-thread af, contracting that edge, and on the warp-'thread c, bringing the two points of connection nearer together, and the scallop E is formed.

Thus, it will be seen that, by adding warps, and connecting and disconnecting them at different times, an indefinite number of figures be formed.

It will, therefore, be evident -that my invention is not particularly Yconfined to va particular vstyle or configuration of the article produced, but tothe process by which the several warps-are united, to produce the article, the process of looping or knotting forming an ornamental edge, which may itself be varied, as by making the knots or loops continually upon the same side of the same waip, or by alternating iirst to one side, and then to another.

Various devices forperforming this operation may be employed, but the best means known to me is that for which I have filed an application for patent, in even date herewith, entitled Improvement in Tattiug-Machine," a full description of the construction and operation of which accompanies the said application.

Having thus fully described my invention,

That I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described tatting, fabricated substantially asset forth, as a new article of manufacture. l

C. O. CROSBY. Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TmBITs.. 

